University, Annex Give Salk Inoculation Plans

All University and Radcliffe students will be eligible for inoculations with Salk Anti-Polio Vaccine under programs announced yesterday by the Harvard University Health Service and the Radcliffe Health Center.

Injections will be free for those students who have not reached their twentieth birthday, and cost $1 per injection to those twenty or older.

Widespread national use of the vaccine, which protects against serious forms of poliomyelitis, has been credited with reducing the incidence of the disease in the last year.

Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Service, said, "I hope that all students will arrange to get their Salk vaccine early this year. It seems to be effective and remarkably free from reactions in its administration."

Students under 21 must have parent's permission to get the injections, which are given in a series of three shots. The second following six weeks after the first and the last six to seven months later. Forms for the purpose are available at the Hygiene Building.

The Harvard program will include injections every Thursday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. beginning October 11, and students should sign up in advance, according to Dr. John C. Wells, Assistant Physician. Dr. Wells expects to inject up to 100 students in an afternoon.

Dr. Barbara C. Gurd, Radcliffe College Physician, did not disclose details of when and how the Annex program would be handled, but she said further information would be available in the dormitories this week.

The free vaccine will be provided by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health through the Cambridge Department of Public Health. The State recently ruled that since students spend eight or nine months per year in Massachusetts, they are entitled to the same protection as legal residents.

Both Health Services will undertake to purchase the vaccine for students over twenty.